L'univers de Jacques Demy (1995)

Director:

Agnès Varda

Writer:

Agnès Varda

Stars:

Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Nino Castelnuovo

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anouk Aimée	...	Herself
Richard Berry	...	Himself
Nino Castelnuovo	...	Himself
Danielle Darrieux	...	Herself
Catherine Deneuve	...	Herself
Françoise Fabian	...	Herself
Harrison Ford	...	Himself
Claude Mann	...	Himself
Marc Michel	...	Himself
Jeanne Moreau	...	Herself
Jacques Perrin	...	Himself
Michel Piccoli	...	Himself
Dominique Sanda	...	Herself
Anne Vernon	...	Herself
Caroline Bongrand	...	Une demoiselle de l'Allée Raffet

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

title directed by female | character name in title

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

France Belgium Spain

Language:

French English

Release Date:

22 September 1995 (France)

Also Known As:

The Universe of Jacques Demy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Canal+ España, Canal+, Canal+

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Features Lola (1961)

User Reviews

An engaging amble through Demy's scrapbook

Documentary The World of Jacques Demy aka L'Univers de Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda's second film about her husband (after her semi-fictionalised film about his childhood, Jacquot de Nantes), eschews a chronological approach for a more scrapbook like amble through his career, which is one way of avoiding the inevitable decline of his career and ending on a high. Utilizing archive interviews, on-set footage, reuniting co-stars and hearing from fans (mostly teenage girls), surprises abound, such as footage of Demy and Harrison Ford hanging around while shooting tests for his forgotten US sequel to Lola, Model Shop (Ford was replaced by Gary Lockwood at the studio's insistence Ford would never be a box-office star) or a chubby Jim Morrison visiting the set of Peau D'Ane. While it offers ample inadvertent examples of why much of his post-60s work was less than successful – many of the more obscure films look simply awful - it does make you want to see the odd lesser-known work like the surprisingly dark looking The Pied Piper, and the 90 minutes pass surprisingly easily.